Hello Students! Here you have some pre reading activities that you have to do by posting comments in this blog. There are three tasks about the book 1984 by Geroge Orwell so be sure that you complete all the tasks.
TASK 1:
- What do you know about George Orwell? Each Student should provide new information (No more than 6 sentences), starting with his date of birth if you are the first. BE CAREFUL! You can not repeat your classmates information; therefore, you will have to read their comments before writing your comment.
- What is the historical context of the book? You'll have to research into Orwell's background to understand why he wrote the book when he did it.
Is good to be the first!
ReplyDeleteWell, George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. He was an English author and journalist, and he was considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture.
I think that the second activity is too large to be developed here. You know I mean?
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ReplyDelete1) The two masterworks considered the most successful of his career as a novelist were the texts published after the Second World war : «Animal Farm » and especially «1984», from this novel the term Big Brother became contemporary vernacular, including the adjective Orwellian.
ReplyDelete1984 is the title of a classic novel of the social science fiction written between 1947 and 1948 y published on 8th, June 1949.
2) After the Second World War, the United Kingdom fell to civil war and then was integrated into Oceania. Simultaneously, the USSR's annexation of continental Europe established the 2nd superstate of Eurasia. The 3rd superstate, Eastasia, comprises Chinese-dominated east Asia. The 3 superstates fight a perpetual war for the remaining unconquered lands of the world; they form and break alliances as convenient.
So 1984 occurs in Oceania, one of three intercontinental super-states who divided the world among themselves after a global war. The social class system is three-fold:
*the upper-class Inner Party
*the middle-class Outer Party
*the lower-class Proles (from Proletariat),who make up 85% of the population and represent the working classes.
Hello every body....
ReplyDeleteHis first works were A Hanging and Shooting an Elephant. He lived several years in poverty.
Down and Out in Paris and London, was his first important work, he work as a dishwasher
in a luxurious hotel.He got married with Eileen O´Shaughnessy en 1936,and adopted a child.
Context.
Orwell fought against fascism, he said that the power corrupt people.
His wife died in 1945, he was destroyed, he moved to an island where he wrote his master piece 1984.
1) During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books of reportage. According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest journalist of his day and the foremost architect of the English essay since Hazlitt."
ReplyDeleteOrwell is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language. Orwell's concern over the power of language to shape reality is also reflected in his invention of Newspeak, the official language of the imaginary country of Oceania in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Newspeak is a variant of English in which vocabulary is strictly limited by government fiat. The goal is to make it increasingly difficult to express ideas that contradict the official line - with the final aim of making it impossible even to conceive such ideas.
The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four also reflects various aspects of the social and political life of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Orwell is reported to have said that the book described what he viewed as the situation in the United Kingdom in 1948, when the British economy was poor, the British Empire was dissolving at the same time as newspapers were reporting its triumphs, and wartime allies such as the USSR were rapidly becoming peacetime foes ('Eurasia is the enemy. Eurasia has always been the enemy').
ReplyDeleteHi Miss! Here is my answer:
ReplyDelete1) In essays Orwell expressed his admiration for Charles Dickens, Herman Melville and Jonathan Swift.
Orwell said that his writing style is very close to Somerset Maugham.
In October 1949, before his death, he married his second wife Sonia Brownell.
Orwell died on January 21, 1950.
He died in London at the age of 46, of tuberculosis, a disease he had contracted during the period described in "Down and Out in Paris and London".
He was buried in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.
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ReplyDeletehello miss.... hello everybody....
ReplyDeletehow's everything going?
well, despite the fact I've already read some
chapters, I'd like to participate anyway. :)
Regarding the first question, I found out
more interesting information about Orwell:
* his real name is Eric Blair. He adopted his
pen name in 1933.He chose a pen name that stressed his deep, lifelong affection for the English tradition and countryside: George is the patron saint of England (and George V was monarch at the time), while the River Orwell in Suffolk was one of his most beloved English sites.
regading the context :
ReplyDelete*In 1944 Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm, which was published the following year with great critical and popular success. The royalties from Animal Farm provided Orwell with a comfortable income for the first time in his adult life. From 1945 Orwell was the Observer's war correspondent and later contributed regularly to the Manchester Evening News. He was a close friend of the Observer's editor/owner, David Astor and his ideas had a strong influence on Astor's editorial policies. In 1949 his best-known work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. He wrote the novel during his stay on the island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland.